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Google’s official data export service, producing massive archives covering Gmail, Google Photos, Drive, YouTube history, Calendar, Contacts, Location History, and dozens more services. A single Takeout dump is the largest personal data ingestion event most people will ever perform — and a critical starting point for anyone building a personal digital archive.

A self-hosted, AI-powered photo management application with face recognition, automatic categorization, map views, and album management. In the con/serve architecture, PhotoPrism serves as a rich visualization frontend over git-annex-tracked photo archives, applying the data-visualization separation principle: photos live in git-annex, PhotoPrism provides the browsable UI.

A simple, self-hosted photo gallery designed for photographers who want a clean browsing experience over existing folder structures. Already deployed as a service in Lab-in-a-Box. Lighter than PhotoPrism, it reads photos directly from the filesystem without requiring import or database migration.

A self-hosted internet archiving tool that takes URLs and saves them in multiple formats – HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC, media files – for long-term preservation.

A cloud-native, headless browser-based web crawler that creates high-fidelity WARC archives, capturing JavaScript-rendered content that traditional crawlers miss.

A single-file Python file server supporting HTTP, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, and TFTP with resumable uploads, content-based deduplication, media indexing, and a full-featured web interface. Useful as an ingestion front-end and quick file sharing tool within research infrastructure.

Self-hosted collaborative markdown editor for meeting notes, lab notebooks, and documentation. Documents are exported and committed to git for long-term preservation.

A mature, well-established website mirroring tool that creates offline-browsable copies of entire websites, preserving directory structure and link integrity.

Built-in Mattermost export tooling using mmctl to produce JSONL archives of teams, channels, users, and posts, suitable for long-term preservation in git-annex.

A browser extension (and CLI tool) that saves a complete web page – including CSS, images, fonts, and iframes – into a single, self-contained HTML file.

Docker-based Telegram archival tool with incremental backups, media preservation, real-time message capture, and a built-in web viewer.

Integration with the Zotero reference manager for synchronizing curated reference collections with DataLad datasets. Export BibTeX, JSON, and structured metadata for git-tracked bibliography management.